U.S. game sales jump 47 percent in April on GTA4

U.S. sales of video game hardware and software rose 47 percent from a year earlier, as Take-Two Interactive Software Inc’s “Grand Theft Auto 4″ and Nintendo Co Ltd’s Wii console stole the show.The popularity of “Grand Theft Auto 4,” however, failed to boost sales of Microsoft Corp’s Xbox 360 and Sony Corp’s PlayStation 3, which [...]

Sony to add Skype service to PSP in March in Japan

TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp said it would add a Skype Web phone function to its PlayStation Portable later this month in Japan in a bid to boost the appeal of the handheld machine, which is running behind Nintendo Co Ltd’s DS in sales.
Skype is a unit of eBay Inc, the world’s largest online auctioneer.
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“Beavis” goes portable on PlayStation format

The Universal Media Disc, a proprietary format for Sony’s PlayStation Portable, may have failed as a movie format, but Sony’s continued attempts to portray the PSP as a multimedia device rather than a game player now find the company trying again, this time with TV shows.Sony Computer Entertainment America on Thursday announced that it is [...]